Castelvecchio Museum hosts Titian exhibition from 31 October
Published on 10/31/2026 at 10:16 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSTitian exhibition and museum setting
- The Civic Museums of Verona open the exhibition at Castelvecchio Museum on 31 October 2026.
- Sala Boggian combines Titian’s painting with Renaissance instruments and manuscripts from Verona.
- Castelvecchio Museum was built between 1354 and 1357 and reorganised by Carlo Scarpa from 1957 to 1964.
Castelvecchio Museum opens The Venus by Titian and the Musical Renaissance in Verona on 31 October 2026, bringing a loan from Madrid into the city’s civic museum. The exhibition runs until 31 January 2027 and places Titian’s Venus with a Dog and an Organist alongside paintings, instruments and Renaissance music sources.
Titian’s Venus opens the Castelvecchio exhibition
The exhibition is installed in Sala Boggian, a temporary exhibition room inside the museum complex. Its central work is Titian’s Venus with a Dog and an Organist, which comes from the Museo del Prado in Madrid for the presentation in Verona.
The display also includes Tintoretto’s Contest of the Muses and the Pierides from the museum collection, together with Marietta Robusti’s Self-portrait with Spinet from the Uffizi Galleries. The organisers present the works in relation to music, painting and humanist culture during the Venetian and Veronese Renaissance. The 31 October exhibition listing places the opening and venue together on the same page.
Painted instruments are part of the route rather than a separate background theme. Cornets, Renaissance flutes, madrigal books and original manuscripts and prints from the Philharmonic Academy of Verona are displayed beside the paintings they help explain.
How the musical programme relates to the museum
The exhibition is accompanied by concerts created with the E. F. Dall’Abaco Conservatory of Verona. The first listed concert is in Sala Boggian on 21 November 2026, followed by further dates on 5 December 2026, 19 December 2026 and 9 January 2027.
Guided exhibition visits are also listed for several dates from 1 November 2026 onwards, including 7, 8, 15, 21, 22 and 29 November. Reservations are required for these activities, and the programme is published by the Civic Museums information page, which also records the exhibition period at the museum.
This arrangement gives the 2026 anniversary a specific physical setting: the Boggian Hall connects the loan from the Prado with objects that show how music appeared in Renaissance images and how it was made in practice.
Castelvecchio’s medieval structure and Scarpa’s museum
The castle was built between 1354 and 1357 by Cangrande II of the Della Scala family as both a residence and a defensive stronghold. Since 1928, it has housed a museum of Veronese art and sculpture covering the Middle Ages and later periods.
After damage during the Second World War, architect Carlo Scarpa reorganised the museum between 1957 and 1964. That intervention remains part of the visitor setting for the exhibition, because the temporary display sits within a building where medieval architecture and twentieth-century museum design are presented together. The municipal museum history records the building dates and Scarpa’s work.
Visiting Castelvecchio Museum: what travellers from Western Europe should know
- The Venus by Titian and the Musical Renaissance takes place from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 in Sala Boggian at Castelvecchio Museum, Corso Castelvecchio 2, Verona.
- The museum remains the venue for the exhibition, while the listed concerts and guided visits are scheduled activities within the programme; the first concert is on 21 November 2026.
- The site combines a fourteenth-century castle, the Boggian Hall and Carlo Scarpa’s museum reorganisation, so visitors encounter the exhibition within both historic and modern architectural fabric.
The exhibition therefore offers a museum visit centred on one painting while extending into instruments, manuscripts and live music. Its opening date places the programme directly inside Castelvecchio Museum’s 2026 centenary year.
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Frequently asked questions about Castelvecchio Museum
When does The Venus by Titian and the Musical Renaissance take place at Castelvecchio Museum?
The exhibition runs from 31 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 at Castelvecchio Museum in Verona.
What is on display at Castelvecchio Museum?
Titian’s Venus with a Dog and an Organist is shown with works by Tintoretto and Marietta Robusti, historical instruments, books and manuscripts.
Where is Castelvecchio Museum and how do you get there?
The museum is at Corso Castelvecchio 2 in Verona, in the castle complex that houses the city’s collection of medieval and later Veronese art.
